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Events on Friday 11 November 1853 1
1853Livingstone begins trans-Africa expeditionMissionary explorer sets out from LinyantiDavid Livingstone departed from Linyanti in November 1853 on an expedition that would take him across southern Africa to the Atlantic coast at Luanda and then back across the continent to the Indian Ocean. The journey, completed over the following three years, made him the first European to see Victoria Falls. His accounts opened the interior of Africa to wider European attention.